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Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. – Cavett Robert

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. – Milton Friedman

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. – Elbert Hubbard

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. – John D. Rockefeller

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. – Robert E. Lee

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. – George Washington

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James A. Baldwin

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. – Carl Sagan

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. – Carl Sagan

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. – Bill Cosby

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. – Albert Camus

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. – Niccolo Machiavelli

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice. – Thomas Paine

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. – Brad Henry

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. – A. J. McLean

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling. – Frida Kahlo

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Plato

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. – Ken Kesey